Entrance
is free and refreshments will be available.Nearest underground stations: Vauxhall & Oval.
Please arrive promptly as each performance lasts only 15 minutes.

PHILis a new work by Anna
Best and the first in a series of three temporary public art
commissions concerning the future of The Beaufoy Institute in
Vauxhall.

PHIL
takes a well known piece of classical music (Eine Kleine
Nachtmusik by Mozart) and presents a performative detour whereby
the TV screen becomes a performer, and the audience is host venue.
Each musician is relocated into a Vauxhall home (chosen because
the residents have PHIL somewhere in their name) where they play
their part of the piece. This is filmed on video and finally
reunited into an orchestra of televisions at The Beaufoy
Institute.

PHIL
splices together television and orchestral culture with the
historical Beaufoy building and thereby questions the social
hierarchies embedded in entertainment, philosophy, music,
love and what-to-do-on-a-Saturday night. The atmosphere of high
culture in a symphony orchestra is physically and technologically
disintegrated by the process. The currently unused Beaufoy
building, like the orchestra, summons up the legacy of the
Victorian era. PHIL investigates the relationship between
urban regeneration, arts funding and the philanthropic attitude.
By searching for Philips, Philomenas and Phillippas, the artist
turns on its side any notion of a geographically defined
community. PHIL is offered to the residents of Vauxhall and
the London Philharmonic orchestra in the spirit of celebratory
collaboration and critical provocation. The Beaufoy Commissions
provide a unique opportunity to look to the future of Beaufoy
Institute and discuss its role within the area.

Anna
Bests practice as an artist is not easily catagorised, though a
constant thread is her interest in making connections and
narratives between different people and situations. Elements of
live art performance, documentation techniques and research
processes are given equal emphasis in her work. Bests past
projects include; A Real Pony Race For A Bridle, which saw
a full-scale gymkhana in Burgess Park, Peckham and The Wedding
Project, commissioned by Tate Modern, in Borough Market. More
recently she has worked collaboratively at Grizedale Arts on The
Festival of Lying, in Cumbria, made a website
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Belgium, The USA and Venezuela.

PHIL
is part of the Beaufoy Arts Project, which will be delivered by a
unique partnership of The Vauxhall St. Peters Heritage Centre,
Lambeth Arts, Gasworks Gallery and Danielle Arnaud contemporary
art. The project has been supported by Lambeth Riverside and will
form part of a major year long programme of community involvement
in the Riverside area to inform the regeneration process. The next
commission is by art/architecture collective MUF and will take
place in October 2002 and the final commission which will take
place in December 2002 will see a new work by Helen Maurer.